Murder by Television

A STORY OF A PERFECT CRIME

A 1930s murder mystery built around a futuristic television invention, where corporate greed and technological ambition collide in a locked-room whodunit.

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.